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History divides penny-pinchers into three categories: the frugal, the misers, and the savers. They make for entirely different types of stories.

There is overlap, of course, but the media also loves to find billionaires in blue jeans instead of Armani suits and label them skinflints. The world's richest man, Carlos Slim Helu, has lived in the same six bedroom house for 30 years and still drives himself to work, albeit in a $300,000 Bentley. Warren Buffett, the Sage of Omaha, worth $62 billion, still lives in his hometown in a house he bought in 1955 for $31,000.

What's the good of ordering food via your smartphone's Grubhub app or ordering a car via its Uber app if you don't also have an app to make sure there's some money left on your credit card when it gets there? (See also: Apps to Manage Credit Card Rewards)

Well soon you will, thanks to Ondot, a San Jose-based company that just unveiled Card Control, a mobile command center for defeating fraud, all built into your phone.

At the most basic level, the app serves as an extra line of protection against fraud, allowing the user to toggle the card's use on or off, or set the card to only function within certain parameters.

More and more people are cutting loose their cable TV providers nowadays, and no wonder. Cable and satellite services offer big packages of channels for big fees, and have been refusing to provide less expensive a la carte options. Streaming online services have been winning over longtime cable customers by offering selections of programming at much smaller monthly prices. (See also: You Never Need to Pay to Watch Movies)

But if you are a big fan of certain types of programming, you might be afraid to cut the cord. Fear no longer. This post will help almost any kind of TV watcher find their ideal cable-free solution.

So, you have a health or fitness goal and you've started hard work toward getting there, but you're still having trouble hitting your mark. Not a problem! One of the most motivating ways to stay the course is by documenting your progress. Whether it's toward a certain number on the scale or particular finish time at an upcoming race, logging food/exercise/etc. is definitely something worth trying. (See also: Best Strength Training Apps)

Here are seven websites to help — along with my favorite way to keep track of my own goals. These sites come highly recommended by my blog readers, and I've used several of them myself. I have now even found a few more to try!